Moreau River (AMNH): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, South Dakota
collected by J. L. Wortman, R. S. Hill 1882-1884
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Diclonius mirabilis
(Leidy 1856)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
AMNH 5730 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
= Anatosaurus copei n. sp.
Lull and Wright 1942
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Lull and Wright 1942 | |||||||||
synonym of Edmontosaurus annectens | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Perkins |
Coordinates: | 45.1° North, 102.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 51.1° North, 76.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 2600 feet | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
*International age/stage: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian - Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Montana | Formation: | Hell Creek | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Laramie" = Hell Creek Formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Articulated whole bodies: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
Collection size: | 1 specimens | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
Collectors: | J. L. Wortman, R. S. Hill | Collection dates: | 1882-1884 |
Metadata
Also known as: | L&W locality 37 | ||
Database number: | 24790 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-08-20 10:19:37 | Last modified: | 2022-03-28 04:48:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-08-20 10:19:37 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6950. | 5% 52040 | E. D. Cope. 1883. The structure and appearance of a Laramie dinosaurian. American Naturalist 17:774-777 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
58798 | B. Brown. 1908. The Trachodon group. The American Museum Journal 8(4):50-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
12549 | ETE | R. Chapman and M. K. Brett-Surman. 1990. Morphometric observations on hadrosaurid ornithopods. In K. Carpenter and P. J. Currie (eds.), Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 163-177 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
63287 | E. D. Cope. 1884. On the structure of the skull in Diclonius mirabilis, a Laramie dinosaurian. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 32:315-316 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
12319 | ETE | R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
24837 | ETE | W. D. Matthew. 1915. Dinosaurs, with Special Reference to the American Museum Collections. American Museum of Natural History, New York 1-162 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
51977 | H. F. Osborn. 1909. The Upper Cretaceous iguanodont dinosaurs. Nature 81:160-162 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
12385 | ETE | H. F. Osborn. 1912. Integument of the iguanodont dinosaur Trachodon. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History. New Series 1(2):35-544 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
61518 | D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |